Removing all traces of a disease from the body so that the body is perfectly healthy again.A process of improving the flavor, color, tenderness, and shelf life of a meat, such as by using smoke, spices, and chemicals.Making a finished product out of a raw material by using heat or chemicals, such as tanned leather or vulcanized rubber.Causing the loss of a plasmid from a bacterial culture or the loss of a dormant virus which has inserted itself into the bacterial genome (a lysogenized virus).